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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180592 | Portable monitoring devices and methods of operating same The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable monitoring device comprises (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user, (ii) a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of a user and, in resp... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180591 | Portable monitoring devices and methods of operating same The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to a portable monitoring device comprising (i) a housing having a physical size and shape that is adapted to couple to the user, (ii) a motion sensor, disposed in the housing, to detect motion of the user and, in r... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8031613 | System for routing internet traffic over backbone providers An apparatus and method for real-time buying and selling of Internet Protocol (IP) transit is described. Embodiments include a platform for routing IP traffic in real time from at least one network user to a plurality of backbone providers. Embodiments further inclu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8022554 | Stacked die package for MEMS resonator system A stacked die package for an electromechanical resonator system includes a chip that contains an electromechanical resonator bonded onto the control chip for the electromechanical resonator by a thermally and/or electrically conductive epoxy. In various embodiments,... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7932958 | Integrated analog video receiver An analog video receiver implemented in an integrated circuit device. The analog video receiver includes an amplifier to amplify an analog video signal having a desired carrier frequency, and a mixing circuit to mix the amplified analog video signal with a complex s... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929060 | Video receiver with reduced power mode An integrated circuit device having a television signal tuner, video decoder and power control circuit. The television signal tuner selects one of a plurality of television channels, and the video decoder converts a television signal conveyed in the selected televis... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7821362 | Boosted-bias tunable filter with dynamic calibration In a signal communication device, a frequency-selective filter has at least one component that is biased by a control signal to establish a center frequency of the frequency-selective filter. A closed-loop bias generator is provided to generate the control signal an... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7787319 | Sense amplifier circuitry for integrated circuit having memory cell array, and method of operating same An integrated circuit device (e.g., a logic device or a memory device) having (i) a memory cell array which includes a plurality of memory cells (for example, memory cells having electrically floating body transistors) and (ii) sense amplifier circuitry, coupled to ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7786612 | Wind turbine power module mounted on the tower foundation The invention relates to a method of constructing a wind energy plant and to a wind energy plant as such. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for constructing wind energy plants at lower expenses and more rapidly. According to one embodiment, a method for... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7760941 | Method and apparatus of segmenting an object in a data set and of determination of the volume of segmented object The invention relates to a method of segmenting an object in a data set, wherein the object is initially segmented resulting in a first set (N0) of voxels. An erosion operation is performed on the first set (N0) of voxels resulting in an eroded... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7736959 | Integrated circuit device, and method of fabricating same There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to integrated circuit device including SOI logic transistors and SOI memory transistors, and method for fabricating such a device. In one embodiment, int... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7733693 | Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a memory device and technique of reading data from and writing data into memory cells of the memory device. In this regard, in one embodiment of this ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7732816 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor integrated circuit device, such as a memory device or radiation detector, is disclosed, in which data storage cells are formed on a substrate. Each of the data storage cells includes a field effect transistor having a source, drain, and gate, and a b... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7683430 | Electrically floating body memory cell and array, and method of operating or controlling same An integrated circuit having a memory cell and/or memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells (as well as techniques for reading, controlling and/or operating, the memory cell, and/or memory cell array). Each memory cell includes at least one transistor ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7663263 | Wind turbine power module mounted on the tower foundation The invention relates to a method of constructing a wind energy plant and to a wind energy plant as such. In one aspect, the invention provides a method for constructing wind energy plants at lower expenses and more rapidly. According to one embodiment, a method for... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7628501 | Jukebox or vending machine having a lighting system The invention relates to a jukebox or vending machine provided with a lighting system. In order to provide an improved lighting system for generating lighting effects, the lighting system comprises a screen, the screen having a colored design, a circuit board with a... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7610723 | Wind energy plant with drainage A wind power installation comprising a pylon comprising a pylon, a generator supported by the pylon and rotor blades coupled to the generator. The wind power installation further includes a first door to allow entrance into and exit from the interior of the pylon, a... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7606098 | Semiconductor memory array architecture with grouped memory cells, and method of controlling same An integrated circuit device (e.g., a logic device or a memory device) having a memory cell array including a plurality of word lines (e.g., first and second word lines) and a plurality of word line segments (e.g., first and second word line segments) wherein each w... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7606066 | Memory cell and memory cell array having an electrically floating body transistor, and methods of operating same A technique of writing, programming, holding, maintaining, sampling, sensing, reading and/or determining the data state of a memory cell of a memory cell array (for example, a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells which consist of an electrically floa... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7602645 | Method and apparatus for varying the programming duration and/or voltage of an electrically floating body transistor, and memory cell array implementing same There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions, for example, circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating semiconductor memory cells of a memory cell array, including, for example, electricall... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7542345 | Multi-bit memory cell having electrically floating body transistor, and method of programming and reading same There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions, for example, multi-bit memory cell and circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating a multi-bit memory cell (and memory cell array having a plur... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7542340 | Integrated circuit including memory array having a segmented bit line architecture and method of controlling and/or operating same An integrated circuit device (e.g., a logic device or a memory device) having a memory cell array including a plurality of bit lines (e.g., first and second bit lines) and a plurality of bit line segments (e.g., first and second bit line segments) wherein each bit l... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7541616 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor integrated circuit device, such as a memory device or radiation detector, is disclosed, in which data storage cells are formed on a substrate. Each of the data storage cells includes a field effect transistor having a source, drain, and gate, and a b... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7514748 | Semiconductor device A semiconductor device such as a DRAM memory device is disclosed. A substrate (12) of semiconductor material is provided with energy band modifying means in the form of a box region (38) and is covered by an insulating layer (14). A semiconducto... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7504742 | Method for the erection of a wind energy plant, and wind energy plant A wind power installation, according to one aspect, comprising a pylon which is based on a foundation and a power module, wherein the power module includes at least a transformer, which the electrical energy provided by the generator of the wind power installation i... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7499358 | Method and circuitry to generate a reference current for reading a memory cell, and device implementing same There are many inventions disclosed herein. In one aspect, the present inventions are directed to methods and circuitry to control, adjust, determine and/or modify the absolute and/or relative positioning or location (i.e., absolute or relative amount) of reference ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7499352 | Integrated circuit having memory array including row redundancy, and method of programming, controlling and/or operating same An integrated circuit device (for example, a logic device (such as, a microcontroller or microprocessor) or a portion of a memory device (such as, a discrete memory)), including (a) a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells arranged in (i) a plurality o... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7492621 | Inverter, method for use thereof and wind power installation employing same One aspect of the present invention concerns an inverter for converting a direct current into an alternating current. In one aspect, in order to provide an inverter which can be repaired more quickly and more reliably at the location of use, an inverter is of an at ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492632 | Memory array having a programmable word length, and method of operating same A memory cell array and device having a memory cell array (i.e., an integrated circuit device, for example, a logic device (such as, a microcontroller or microprocessor) or a memory device (such as, a discrete memory)) including electrically floating body transistor... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7486563 | Sense amplifier circuitry and architecture to write data into and/or read from memory cells A technique of, and circuitry for sampling, sensing, reading and/or determining the data state of a memory cell of a memory cell array (for example, a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells which consist of an electrically floating body transistor). In... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7476939 | Memory cell having an electrically floating body transistor and programming technique therefor A memory cell comprising an electrically floating body transistor including a source region, a drain region, a body region disposed therebetween, wherein the body region is electrically floating, and a gate disposed over the body region and separated therefrom by a ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7477540 | Bipolar reading technique for a memory cell having an electrically floating body transistor A technique of sampling, sensing, reading and/or determining the data state of a memory cell (of, for example, a memory cell array) including an electrically floating body transistor. In this regard, the intrinsic bipolar transistor current component is employed to ... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7436084 | Wind energy plant and method for use in erection of a wind energy plant The object of one aspect of the invention is to develop a method by means of which the erection of wind power installations can be effected even more advantageously but in particular also more quickly. A further aim of one aspect of the invention is to provid... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436706 | Method and apparatus for varying the programming duration and/or voltage of an electrically floating body transistor, and memory cell array implementing same There are many inventions described herein as well as many aspects and embodiments of those inventions, for example, circuitry and techniques for reading, writing and/or operating a semiconductor memory cells of a memory cell array, including electrically floating b... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7365446 | Wind power plant having power module mounted on tower foundation and method for use in constructing same The invention relates to a method for constructing a wind energy plant and to a wind energy plant as such. An aim of one aspect of the invention is to provide a method for constructing wind energy plants at lower expenses and more rapidly. According to one aspect, a... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7359229 | Semiconductor memory device and method of operating same There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a memory device and technique of reading data from and writing data into memory cells of the memory device. In this regard, in one embodiment of this ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355916 | Method and circuitry to generate a reference current for reading a memory cell, and device implementing same There are many inventions disclosed herein. In one aspect, the present inventions are directed to methods and circuitry to control, adjust, determine and/or modify the absolute and/or relative positioning or location (i.e., absolute or relative amount) of reference ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7347667 | Wind power installation This relates to a wind power installation comprising a pylon (tower) and a rotor arranged on the pylon and having at least one individually adjustable rotor blade. The wind power installation further comprises a device to detect the wind direction, a device to detec... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342842 | Data storage device and refreshing method for use with such device A data storage device such as a DRAM memory having a plurality of data storage cells 10 is disclosed. Each data storage cell 10 has a physical parameter which varies with time and represents one of two binary logic states. A selection circuit 16... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7335934 | Integrated circuit device, and method of fabricating same There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to integrated circuit device including SOI logic transistors and SOI memory transistors, and method for fabricating such a device. In one embodiment, int... | 02/26/2008 |
